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The Lefschetz number and fixed point index can be thought of as two different descriptions of the same invariant. The Lefschetz number is algebraic and defined using homology. The index is defined more directly from the topology and is a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-04-27 Kate Ponto

In this paper we consider a one dimensional liner piecewise-smooth discontinuous map. It is well known that stable periodic orbits exist in this type of map for a specific parameter region. It is also known that the corresponding…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Bhooshan Rajpathak , Harish Pillai , Santanu Bandyopadhyay

Let p be a saddle fixed point for an orientation-preserving surface diffeomorphism f admitting a homoclinic point q. Let V be an open 2-cell bounded by a simple loop formed by two arcs joining p to q lying respectively in the stable and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Morris W. Hirsch

We introduce a theory of integration with respect to the fixed point index, offering a substantial improvement over previous approaches based on the Lefschetz number. This framework eliminates several restrictive assumptions -- such as the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Jesús A. Álvarez López , Alejandro O. Majadas-Moure , David Mosquera-Lois

Indices of fixed point classes play a central role in Nielsen fixed point theory. Jiang-Wang-Zhang proved that for selfmaps of graphs and surfaces, the index of any fixed point class has an upper bound called its characteristic. In this…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Qiang Zhang , Xuezhi Zhao

Expanding maps with indifferent fixed points, a.k.a. intermittent maps, are popular models in nonlinear dynamics and infinite ergodic theory. We present a simple proof of the exactness of a wide class of expanding maps of [0,1], with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-09-04 Marco Lenci

We show how a variant of the Lefschetz Fixed Point Theorem may be used to count the number of periodic orbits for certain rational difference equations.

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-10-01 Eric Bedford , Kyounghee Kim

Let $f$ be a piecewise continuous and monotonic map on the interval with at most finitely many discontinuities and turning points. In this paper we study properties about this class of maps and show its main difference from the continuous…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Kleyber Cunha , Marcio Gouveia , Paulo Santana

In this follow-up paper, we again inspect a surprising relationship between the set of fixed points of a polynomial map $\varphi_{d, c}$ defined by $\varphi_{d, c}(z) = z^d + c$ for all $c, z \in \mathcal{O}_{K}$ or $\in \mathbb{Z}_{p}$ or…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-15 Brian Kintu

If $f:[a,b]\to \mathbb{R}$, with $a<b$, is continuous and such that $a$ and $b$ are mapped in opposite directions by $f$, then $f$ has a fixed point in $I$. Suppose that $f:\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}$ is map and $X$ is a continuum. We extend…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-01-25 Alexander Blokh , Lex Oversteegen

We consider convex maps f:R^n -> R^n that are monotone (i.e., that preserve the product ordering of R^n), and nonexpansive for the sup-norm. This includes convex monotone maps that are additively homogeneous (i.e., that commute with the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert

We show that every continuous rotative mapping on a closed interval has a fixed point. This gives an answer to some open questions raised by Goebel and Koter.

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Tammatada Pongsriiam , Imchit Termwuttipong

Consider the Fulton-MacPherson configuration space of $n$ points on $\P^1$, which is isomorphic to a certain moduli space of stable maps to $\P^1$. We compute the cone of effective ${\mathfrak S}_n$-invariant divisors on this space. This…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Brendan Hassett , Yuri Tschinkel

We study the dynamics of area-preserving maps in a non-compact setting. We show that the $C^{\infty}$-closing lemma holds for area-preserving diffeomorphisms on a closed surface with finitely many points removed. As a corollary, a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Shaoyang Zhou

Let $-1<\lambda<1$ and $f:[0,1)\to\mathbb{R}$ be a piecewise $\lambda$-affine map, that is, there exist points $0=c_0<c_1<\cdots <c_{n-1}<c_n=1$ and real numbers $b_1,\ldots,b_n$ such that $f(x)=\lambda x+b_i$ for every $x\in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Arnaldo Nogueira , Benito Pires , Rafael A. Rosales

We give an axiomatic characterization of the fixed point index of an $n$-valued map. For $n$-valued maps on a polyhedron, the fixed point index is shown to be unique with respect to axioms of homotopy invariance, additivity, and a splitting…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-08-01 P. Christopher Staecker

We give a new proof - not using resolution of singularities - of a formula of Denef and the second author expressing the Lefschetz number of iterates of the monodromy of a function on a smooth complex algebraic variety in terms of the Euler…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-04 E. Hrushovski , F. Loeser

We prove that if a continuous piecewise-smooth map on $\mathbb{R}^n$ is comprised of two linear functions, has a bounded orbit, and satisfies a certain non-degeneracy condition, then it has a fixed point. The result has important…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-12-17 David J. W. Simpson

Following the author's previous works, we continue to consider the problem of counting the number of affine conjugacy classes of polynomials of one complex variable when its unordered collection of holomorphic fixed point indices is given.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-09-25 Toshi Sugiyama

We prove two general factorization theorems for fixed-point invariants of fibrations: one for the Lefschetz number and one for the Reidemeister trace. These theorems imply the familiar multiplicativity results for the Lefschetz and Nielsen…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Kate Ponto , Michael Shulman